IB Lang & Lit: Quiz 07

Ethos

Trustworthiness of speaker or writer; Need to establish credit with the audience and feel confident of their right to deliver the speech to that audience

Imagery

Words that create a picture in the reader's mind, to make the thing described clearer or more vivid

Rhythm

A pattern of strong and weak beats

Antithesis

Used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect

Bleak

Charmless and inhospitable; Cold and forbidding; Not hopeful or encouraging, unlikely to have a favorable outcome

Pedantic

Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; over scrupulous

Irreverent

Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously

Theme

The underlying meaning or idea in a text

Protagonist

The main character in a literary work

Homophone

A word that sounds the same as another word but is spelled differently